Species Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Sayce, 1902)

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Species Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Sayce, 1902)

Chiltonia subtenuis Sayce, O.A. 1902. Description of some new Victorian freshwater Amphipoda, No. 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 15: 47-58 pls 4-7 [48, pl. 4].
Type data:
Lectotype NMV J11244 ♂, Lake Hindmarsh, north-western VIC.
Paralectotype(s) NMV J11245 1♀; NMV J11246 6 specimens; whereabouts unknown 1 specimen (lost).

Generic Combinations

Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Sayce, 1902). —
Hurley, D.E. 1959. Austrochiltonia, A new generic name for some Australian freshwater Amphipods. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 1(12): 765-768 [767]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, lotic freshwater, salt lake.

Extra Ecological Information

Euryhaline, tolerates saline water up to 30‰.

General References

Griffiths, C.L. 1976. Some new and notable Amphipoda from Southern Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 72(2): 11-35 (considered Chiltonia capensis Barnard, 1916 to be a junior synonym of this species; comparison of the figures of Rühe (1914), showing South African material, with those of Australian specimens do not support this conclusion)

King, R.A. & Leys, R. 2014. Molecular evidence for mid-Pleistocene divergence of populations of three freshwater amphipod species (Talitroidea : Chiltoniidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, with a new spring-associated genus and species. Australian Journal of Zoology 2014 62: 137-156

Lim, K.H. & Williams, W.D. 1971. Ecology of Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Sayce) (Amphipoda Hyalellidae). Crustaceana 20: 19-24

Rühe, F. 1914. Die Süsswassercrustacean der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 mit Ausschluss der Ostracoden. Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899 16: 5-66

Yager, J. & Humphreys, W.F. 1996. Lasionectes exleyi, sp. nov., the first remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 171-187 [189]

Zeidler, W. 1988. A redescription of Afrochiltonia capensis (K.H. Barnard, 1916) with a review of the genera of the family Ceinidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Annals of the South African Museum 95(5): 105-119